Month: January 2017

With apologies to Bertrand Russell The eminent antitheist and essayist Dr. Brussels dreamt that he died and found himself, against all expectation, at a pair of immense gates that shone like great pearls. He was … [continue]

AFTER JERUSALEM Mark Patrick Lynch At first there was shuffling, scratching, a long moment of silence. And then the voice whispered in the close dark, hesitantly forming words on the other side of the grille. … [continue]

ANTICLIMATIC Arlan Andrews, Sr. Nervous tension thickened palpably in the NASA control center as flickering kinetoscope signals from the descending Martian lander came in, the cratered surface of that planet growing larger and larger in … [continue]

HABEAS CORPUS CALLOSUM Jay Werkheiser Jared stared at the paper without comprehension. “Man, I don’t understand any of this legal bullshit.” “It says that, since your life sentence was handed down before the immortality treatments, … [continue]

THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF DRIVERLESS CARS Charlie Fish I reckon me wife’s having an affair. Sharon and I got together back when I was boning up to be a London cabbie. I was always hunched … [continue]

So the new year continues to trundle along and things are progressing at Superversive Press and Sci Phi Journal. I’m actually making some progress on the slush pile. I know how ridiculously slow the process … [continue]

NASCENT Katie Winkler We were frankly amazed that it picked her. Of course, we had, as a group of the top minds on artificial intelligence, decided that it should decide things for itself. We shouldn’t … [continue]

THE PRICE OF KNOWING Nick Nafpliotis “It’s stopped, ma’am.” Sally Watson heard a lot of things while commanding the Voyager 4 ground team, but learning that the craft had inexplicably ceased moving was not something … [continue]